Key has to be in position "2" and not "1" for this to work, btw.

Also, pouring water into the rear drains to clear them out is no easy feat. How do you do this in a shop? Do you jack up the front of the car?

bump to weasel. Also can you tell me what is the special grease / lubricant that is used on the panoramic roof?

The only time I got a tube was when I had to completely rebuild a panoramic sunroof cables and all, and they gave me a tube of NYOGEL. It's a clear synthetic grease that is pretty thick and doesn't wash away easily with water and such so it works pretty good for the purpose I guess.

Which Nyogel was it since there are a bunch of different ones?

I did some searching and came across one document that calls for "special grease" and another document that specifies "Wurth Glide" or "Kluberplex Lubricant." Found the Wurth stuff, but not sure which Kluberplex is the right one.

In reference to my previous question, how do you manage to clear the rear drains???

The stuff I got from work was just a plain white tube that said nyogel in plain black lettering... just came as part of the kit to rebuild with no part number on it individually.

As for clearing the rear drains, yes I do usually get the front a couple inches off the ground first. If the drains are clogged it is easy enough to gently blow out from behind with air pressure and you can get a small vacuum hose in there to suck out the trash from inside with the glass removed.

Thanks for the great info, as usual.:thumbup:

Im told by my dealer that the hoses on both sides are kinked and twisted from manufacture and need to be replaced
How can this be done without cutting into the inside of the 'A' pillar - i'm going frantic about this as i done want a paint job on my 'A' pillars

No cutting or paint jobs needed. They take the covers off from inside and access the tubes. There are pictures here if you do a search.

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Posted in the wrong thread

I joined here when I had an e53 but I'm referring to my e70

With the trim taken off
The e70 a-pillar has the pipe on the inside of the pillar itself and clipped inside and not clipped along the outside like the 53 does and because it's clipped on the inside to stop it rattling around the inside a-pillar tube - it's near on impossible to get out
I will shove over to the e70 forum hoping for a suggestion there

I had the same left side footwell leak, and fixed it (X5 2003)

The drain line had become clogged and was backing up.

There are two drains, one on each side. You can see them if you open the sunroof and look down on either side: there's a small unfiltered hole about 5mm in dia. Retractable sunroofs are not designed to be waterproof so these drains need to be working in a downpour.
At roof level, drain entry is open, so small bits of leaves and other debris will get into the opening.
Ever left the sunroof open for a few days in the late summer or under a tree?
I have, and will not again.

Sunroof drains come in two parts, (i) an upper flexible tube from the roof which slides into a (ii)solid tube, which starts at the dashboard level and drains down just behind the front wheel. The union between the flex and solid tubes is loose and if there's a back up it will overflow at dashboard height, flooding the footwell.

In my case the flex tube was clear, it was the lower solid tube that was draining too slowly.

The fix: I used some small(er) plastic tubing from drip-irrigation (manufactured by Rainbird, sold at Home Depot). I could thread this smaller tube down the solid tube, flushing out the debris, using a connector attached to the garden hose. It took a few minutes, but it worked.
Relatively simple.

Now need to remove the entire left front seat to get at the carpets as they're still sopping.

Thanks, M